If you are contacting individual School Committee members, please use the individual email addresses below. If you would like to send requests, comments, or concerns to more than one member or the School Committee as a whole, please send messages to SchoolCommittee@tritonschools.org. Messages sent to more than one individual addressee rather than this group address may not receive a response.

Ms. Dina Sullivan

Dina was first elected to the School Committee in May 2005. Her involvement in the district began as an active Newbury Elementary School PTA member in 1996. This led to serving on the Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment Task Force for the Strategic Plan (2001) as well as coordinating letter writing campaigns to elected officials. In addition, she has served as Newbury Elementary School PTA vice-president (1998-2001) and president (2001-2003), Triton Regional Middle School vice-president (2004-2005), NES and TRMS School Council member (2004-2005), and NES (2003-2005) and TRMS (2004-2005) and THS (2005-2009) Volunteer Program Coordinator.

Dina has been a member of the Communications (2005-2007), Warrant (2005-2008), Superintendent/School Committee Evaluation (2005-2008) and Policy (2005-2008) subcommittees. She has served as chair of the Policy (2007-2008), Communication (2009-2010) and Personnel and Negotiations (2013-16) subcommittees as well as Secretary (2006-2007; 2013-2016), Vice-Chair (2007-2008) and Chair (2008-2009; 2010-2013) of the School Committee.

Currently, Dina serves on the Chair of the School Committee. In addition, she serves on the District Budget Advisory Committee (Chair), TRSD Wellness Committee, Massachusetts Association of School Committees (MASC) Regional Schools Committee. She has been actively involved in the planning of the new stadium.

Dina continues to work to enhance academic excellence for all students in the Triton district. She is a strong advocate for viewing our member towns as one learning community and she is a proponent of community involvement to help guide the School Committee in moving Triton forward.

Ms. Deborah Choate

First elected to the School Committee in 2004, Debbie has been involved in the Triton Regional School District since 1995. She was a member of the Salisbury Elementary School PTA and the School Council, a member of the Triton Middle School PTA and School Council, co-ordinator of the Triton Safe Homes Project and a member of TMPO, the Triton Music Parents Organization. Debbie presently serves on the Personnel & Negotiations Subcommittee.

Mrs. Monique Greilich

Monique is one of three representatives from Salisbury on the Triton School Committee. She was elected in 2014 and serves on the Finance subcommittee.

Monique received a BA in Sociology from UMASS- Amherst in 1972 , and a MS degree in Special Education from Florida State University in Tallahassee in 1977. She also has an MS in Counseling and Psychological Services from Salem State University in 1994. She has certification as an Assistant Principal/ Principal from the Merrimack Leadership Academy.

Monique was employed in human services for fifteen years prior to being employed as a special education teacher in Salem, MA and Lawrence, MA. She later served the North Andover School District as a Special Education Department Head and retired from the Wilmington Public Schools as an Assistant Principal in 2010.

Currently, Monique works as a University Supervisor for student teachers at Fitchburg State University. She is a Court Appointed Special Advocate for students in Lawrence and Lowell, and is the Chairperson of the Salisbury Cultural Council. Monique is on the board of the Salisbury

Beach Betterment Association and recently resigned from the Salisbury Board of Health. She is active in her church and local politics.

Monique was a Wenham resident for thirty years prior to moving to Salisbury with her husband in 2011. She is the mother of three adult children who were educated in the Hamilton- Wenham Schools. She has one grandchild.

Ms. Maureen Heffernan

Maureen was first appointed to the School Committee in June 2015 to fill a vacant seat. She was then elected in May 2016 for a 3 year term. She is currently serving as the School Committee Secretary and a member of the Finance Subcommittee. She previously served on the Policy Subcommittee during the 2015-2016 school year.

After moving to Newbury in 2007 from Alexandria Virginia with her husband and three children, Maureen became very involved with the Triton schools. She volunteered her time in classrooms and at PTA events and fundraisers, serving as the NES PTA president (2009-2011), parent representative on hiring committees for NES Principal (2010), NES Assistant Principal (2010) and Chief Academic Officer (2012), NES School Council (2011-2013), TMS School Council (2012) and THS School Council (2013-2015).

Mr. Paul Lees

Paul was elected to the School Committee in May 2010. He presently serves on the Personnel & Negotiations Subcommittee. He has been involved in the Triton Regional School District since 2003 as a bi-weekly parent classroom volunteer, a member of the 2008 Middle School Task Force which performed an analysis of high performing middle schools, attended the Ferry Beach Fifth Grade Environmental Camp as a Parent Chaperone for three years, from 2008 to 2010. Finally, as a Master of the John T. Heard Masonic Lodge in Ipswich he started and developed their own Masonic Angel Fund in 2009 to provide needed financial assistance to local children for such items as basic clothing, eyeglasses and specialized summer camp programs.

Paul earned a BS in Political Science from Salem State College and received a Juris Doctorate in Law from Western New England College School of Law in 1990. He has been a practicing attorney in Gloucester since 1991.

Paul has been a resident of Rowley for the past 24 years and grew up in Ipswich. Married to Jacqueline V. Lees for 27 years, they have been blessed with three children who all currently attend or have graduated from the Triton schools.

Mrs. Linda Litcofsky

Mrs. Tina Tzortzis

Tina was elected to School Committee in 2017 as the newest member from Rowley where she lives with her husband and two young sons.

Tina is particularly interested in working with the School Committee to help improve, preserve and promote the best interests of all the District’s Schools. Tina believes that effective communication and community involvement is paramount to the quality of our schools and will work towards establishing an environment where teachers and students can excel. Tina looks forward to serving on the Policy Committee using her experience in leadership and management.

Tina is a local Real Estate Agent and an active member of the Rowley community.

Mr. Daniel Valianti

Ms. Nerissa Wallen

Nerissa was elected to the School Committee in May 2015 and is currently serving on the Finance Subcommittee. She was educated in the Triton Regional School system, graduating in 1995. After time away from the area for college and career, Nerissa returned to Rowley with her husband and two young sons in 2012. She is active in the Pine Grove School PTA.

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